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Events · UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Gastelum · Tony Gravely vs Anthony Birchak
From the tape · 17 Apr 2021

Tony Gravely vs Anthony Birchak

UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Gastelum · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Tony Gravely beat Anthony Birchak

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
1:31
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

Red corner TonyGravelyAmerican Top Team · Radford, Virginia
VSOn the tape
AB
Blue corner AnthonyBirchak“El Toro”Luta Elite MMA · Tucson, Arizona
Bantamweight3 rounds17 Apr 2021
The story going in
  • Averages 4.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Birchak.
  • Carries 12 points more striking defence than Gravely.
23-9
Record
16-8
−5 yr29
Age
34
5' 5"
Height
+3″5' 8"
69″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
+35
0/10% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Luta Elite MMA
Radford, Virginia
From
Tucson, Arizona
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Gravely1 sub attempt
Tony Gravely32 sig landed
HEAD84%27 of 59BODY9%3 of 3LEGS6%2 of 3
Anthony Birchak14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 28BODY14%2 of 5LEGS14%2 of 2
32 of 65
Sig.
strikes
14 of 35
3 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:20
Control
0:27
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 19
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 4
Round 21:31 of action⚡ 1 KD GravelyEnded 1:31
Tony Gravely7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 6BODY29%2 of 3LEGS14%1 of 1
Anthony Birchak4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 6BODY50%2 of 3LEGS25%1 of 1
7 of 10
Sig.
strikes
4 of 10
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:14
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 0

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Tony Gravely

Round
2
Clock
1:31
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Mark Smith.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Tony Gravely

5.40takedowns / 15 min
5.40 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.48 / 15m
13.17 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.43 / 15m
41%
ACCURACY
14%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Anthony Birchak

0.48takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Tony Gravely↑ +10.6pp
open 64.9%close 75.5%
Anthony Birchak↓ −10.6pp
open 35.1%close 24.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tony Gravely opened at 64.9% and closed at 75.5% (+10.6pp), with Anthony Birchak moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Tony Gravely-205-38964.9%75.5%+10.6pp
Anthony Birchak17528735.1%24.5%−10.6pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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